A Loving Marriage: For the Children’s Sake

“Don’t worry that children never listen to you; worry that they
are always watching you.” Robert Fulghum

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I was inspired this week by my darling Child-Number-Three-Plus-One (the wonderful woman who makes my son so happy and who will give birth to Grandchild-Number-Two at any moment! The suspense is killing us!)

You need to read the whole thing, but here are some highlights, each one a profound thought:

“I owe a lot to the pure love and commitment that you have worked so hard to show each other throughout your marriage.”

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“Thank you for the thoughtful gifts you gave to each other, the importance you placed on time spent alone with each other, and the ooey-goeey secret looks at each other that I was sometimes privileged to espy… You showed me what it means to cherish each other.”

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“Thank you dad for saying the icky romantic stuff in front of us, especially when you praised our mother and made her smile. You showed me what it means to romance the heart.”

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“Thank you mom for teaching us to listen to our father and obey him and reminding us what a wise and cool dad he really is by speaking fondly of him. You showed me what it means to respect.”

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“Thank you for showing me what a happy marriage was so I could recognize and aim for it myself. Thank you for your example. Thank you for putting in the work and unselfishness that marriage takes.”

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“I hope today you will take the opportunity to remember every reason you fell in love and every reason you’ve stayed in love.”

I want to also thank David and Misty for their romance because it has blessed my son and will bless our shared progeny! May we all look for examples like theirs in our lives and seek to emulate the ideal — at all costs. Aren’t our children worth it?

A romantic twist on married bliss…

Musings shares a three-decade-plus romance (if such a thing is possible) which has aged in the way lasting, lovely things do. In this latest chapter, we have just returned to the states after thirteen months abroad and are finally empty-nesters. Follow our trail if you consider yourself a romantic, or would like to be one. START with “Love Makes the World Go Round”.

“Here’s the thing on men—okay, I’m going to give it to you. All men think of themselves as kind of low-level superheroes in their own environment. When men are growing up and they’re reading about Batman, Spiderman, Superman, these aren’t fantasies, these are options. This is the way men really look at their own lives. I’m not even supposed to be telling you this.” ~Jerry Seinfeld